The Lady of the House

The Lady of the House

150 mins | Drama | Feb. 16, 2000

A quiet drama about a lonely, sad, middle-aged woman, Banalata, who has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate.

The Lady of the House

150 mins | Drama | Feb. 16, 2000

The Lady of the House
A quiet drama about a lonely, sad, middle-aged woman, Banalata, who has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers
Original title বাড়িওয়ালি
Directors Rituparno Ghosh
Writers Rituparno Ghosh

Cast

Kirron Kher

as Banalata

Chiranjeet Chakraborty

as Deepanakar

Roopa Ganguly

as Sudeshna

Surya Chatterjee

as Prasanna

Abhishek Chatterjee

as Abhijeet

Shivprasad Mukerjee

as Debashish